It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.